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Description

This data set reports daily, along-track winter sea ice thickness across the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice thickness is estimated using ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Sea Ice Freeboard (ATL10), Version 5 data and NASA Eulerian Snow On Sea Ice Model (NESOSIM) snow loading.

Product Summary

Platforms
ICESat-2 ,
MODELS
Instruments
ATLAS ,
NOT APPLICABLE
Spatial Extent

N: 88 S: 60 E: 180 W: -180

Geographic Region
ARCTIC OCEAN
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
ORBIT
Temporal Extent
2018-10-14 to 2022-05-01
Concept ID
C3263544354-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
39057
Processing Level
4
Science Keywords
Freeboard ,
Ice Depth/Thickness ,
Snow Depth

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Petty, A., Kurtz, N., Kwok, R., Markus, T., & Neumann, T. (2022). ICESat-2 L4 Along-Track Sea Ice Thickness, Version 1 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/JTI5YG3S6VAJ Date Accessed: 2025-12-13

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